<id>donaldp</id>
      <name>Peter Donald</name>
      <email>donaldp at apache dot org</email>
      <organization></organization>
    </developer>
    <developer>
      <id>costin</id>
      <name>Costin Manolache</name>
      <email>costin at apache dot org</email>
      <organization>Apache Software Foundation</organization>
    </developer>
    <developer>
      <id>rsitze</id>
      <name>Richard Sitze</name>

    /**
     * Test <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-5568">MNG-5568</a> edge case
     * which was showing transitive inconsistency: since A &gt; B and B &gt; C then we should have A &gt; C
     * otherwise sorting a list of ComparableVersions() will in some cases throw runtime exception;
     * see Netbeans issues <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=240845">240845</a> and

                }
            }
            return buf.toString();
        }
    }

    public ArtifactVersion matchVersion(List<ArtifactVersion> versions) {
        // TODO could be more efficient by sorting the list and then moving along the restrictions in order?

        ArtifactVersion matched = null;
        for (ArtifactVersion version : versions) {
            if (containsVersion(version)) {